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Pulmonary Function in Obese Patients Scheduled for Jejuno‐Ileostomy
Author(s) -
Andersen Jens,
Rasmussen Jens Peter,
Eriksen Jørgen
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1977.tb01230.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nitrogen washout , lung volumes , pulmonary function testing , functional residual capacity , spirometry , vital capacity , residual volume , cardiology , diffusing capacity , anesthesia , lung , lung function , asthma
Preoperative pulmonary parameters were evaluated in 37 extremely obese but otherwise healthy patients. They were on average 100.9% overweight. X‐ray of the chest, electrocardiograms, and residual volume, vital capacity, total lung capacity, maximum breathing capacity, forced expired volume in 1 second, and related ratios were all within the normal range. The alveolar‐arterial oxygen gradient and the arterial carbon dioxide tension were also within the normal range. The only abnormal finding was a substantially reduced arterial oxygen tension. It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.